The Berkeley Earth Surface
Temperature (BEST) project is an effort to resolve criticism of the current
records of the Earth's surface temperatures by preparing an open database and
analysis of these temperatures and temperature trends, to be available online,
with all calculations, methods and results also to be freely available online.

Professor Richard Muller, a physicist, and his team at Berkeley Earth Surface
Temperature (BEST) promised to “resolve current criticism of the former
temperature analyses, and to prepare an open record that will allow rapid
response to further criticism or suggestions”. Because the BEST team was constituted by some sceptics as well, even many sceptics looked favourable at
this attempt.

A week ago, Muller claimed to
the Wall Street Journal that the case for global warming scepticism was over.
Thanks to research from his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures (BEST) project,
Professor Muller stated confidently, we now know that the planet has warmed by
almost one degree centigrade since 1950. What's more, he told the BBC's Today
programme, there is no sign that this global warming has slowed down.

But the joy of climate
alarmists proved short lived and their smug was wiped out from their faces very
fast. A report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation includes a
graph of world average temperatures over the past ten years, drawn from the
BEST project’s own data published in its website.